About the book: 1994 / The jungle of a distant border planet, intelligent - but bloodthirsty - reptiles who set the goal of destroying the earthling colonists - all this, it seemed, was not left no chance of salvation for Reese Naper, the son of an Intelligence Service officer. However, courage and courage allowed him to snatch from the clutches of the aboriginal croques not only himself and the boy - the son of a colonist, but also a Salarik woman and her daughter - representatives of the intelligent race of cats. In the second novel, Andre Norton presents an alternative world to the earthly one - a world where monsters live, generated both by this land itself and by human fears and fantasies.